Member Profile: OKAPI

Username: okapi

Contact: lizzy_ha@berkeley.edu

Home page: http://okapi.berkeley.edu

Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley

Author of: 5 Modules and 1 Course (view statistics)

Biography:

Open Knowledge and the Public Interest (OKAPI) is a team of creative and technical professionals and UC Berkeley faculty who are focused on bringing together people, tools and ideas to improve public scholarship on the UC Berkeley campus. OKAPI is sponsored by the office of the Chief Information Officer and supported in large part through grant-funded projects. OKAPI’s primary aim is to pioneer a new center that will dramatically improve the public’s access to UC Berkeley’s research knowledge and collections. As part of the Scholar’s Box project, OKAPI is developing innovative models for licensing, publishing, and distributing digital research collections and facilitating their re-use by the public and K-12 teachers and students. OKAPI is also partnering with a number of organizations on initiatives relating to open knowledge and public scholarship.